Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.